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“It’s not ‘lil baby’- call me MR. BABY!”
& the characters at the bottom left say “Truely this is HERESY!”

The cool looking 8-bit rendering says:
“In the movies you guys see, using 16,670,000 colors is a waste~! The NES’s 52 colors is PLENTY!!!” and the hiragana this time at the bottom left say, again: “Truely this is HERESY!”

I don’t have time to translate the weird snake head one, but the last punchline he says is “It’s your jacket!” and the katakana at the bottom left say “Truely this is douchebaggery!/Truely he is a scumbag!”

Gesu, ã‚²ã‚¹, can be translated many ways, generally to mean lowlife, jerkoff, scumbag, boor, depending on the emphasis and context. He’s saying a rude pronoun for you, and referring to someone’s jacket rudely/as something inferior or for some rotten purpose, so I translated as “douchebaggery” to refer to the situation, as the meme seems to consistently do so, usually with the tagline “Truely this is HERESY!”.

“absolute heresy” is certainly not incorrect. I feel since the character size emphasize the last word, it seems the text has an unequal balance, so I chose “truely (this is) HERESY!”

Your translation would work too, it really depends on the enuciation, there is probably an innate Japanese sense on the candor and enunciation of how you would read it with that size layout, so I’d have to hear someone Japanese say it to decide.

“Gedou” can be translated to mean unorthodox, but since heresy is the strongest meaning, and it’s emphasized here, heresy is the probably the best choice.

Ahh- made a translation mistake when I saw 7cal’s- he’s right- I misread the text as see when it is show, so 7cal’s is good- “I’m not gonna waste a full 16770000 colors showing you this picture” “Nintendo’s 52 colors are good enough!”

good enough is a much better translation here for ååˆ†, when used in an operative sense.

The snake head one says “It was perfect for wiping my hands on” in the right bubble and the left says “your jacket!”, so “douchebaggery” is a pretty good translation for “gesu” in that context (which is itself a play on “gedou”; heresy), as in “truly this is DOUCHEBAGGERY!”